Man I hate you college kids. Well, to be honest, I'm just jealous as hell.
I will probably start on my degree this fall, so it'll only be about a decade until I'm done. > -----Original Message----- > From: G Money [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, May 18, 2006 12:23 PM > To: CF-Community > Subject: Re: How Tom Delay Stole Congress > > CS and Math. > > Where the two meet is still my favorite coding moment. I needed an LN > function. CF only had a LOG function. So I wrote my own Taylor Polynomial > routine to approximate the LN function. > > On 5/18/06, Crow T. Robot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Did you go to school for Math? Are you a fellow Math Geek? :) > > > > G Money wrote: > > > Advanced Topics in Topology was the hardest class I took in my > academic > > > life. Very abstract, very hard to visualize. Really made me appreciate > > the > > > relative ease and straight forwardness of Diffy Q. > > > > > > On 5/18/06, Crow T. Robot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> Yikes. Topology. One of the worst classes I've ever had to take. > > >> Well, maybe next to Abstract Algebra. > > >> > > >> G Money wrote: > > >>> I remember learning in my advanced Topology class (high level math > > >>> elective), that in certain topological spaces, 2+2 was undefined. > > >>> > > >>> Was a good lesson to remember: you have to define your space, before > > you > > >> can > > >>> determine your facts. Or put another way, in some spaces.....2+2 > just > > >> might > > >>> equal 6 :) > > >>> > > >>> On 5/17/06, Gruss Gott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>>>> Dana wrote: > > >>>>> do I get frustrated when people simply make the facts up, yes. Or > > >>>> totally disregard them, yes. > > >>>> Well, for my part, you've often accused me of ignoring facts but > the > > >>>> truth is I just don't interpret them as you do. Sometimes you seem > > to > > >>>> get frustrated because everyone doesn't agree that 2+2=6. > > >>>> > > >>>> > > >>> > > >> > > > > > > > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:5:207024 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
